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Police: Girl, 16, threw bleach at counselor's face at MercyFirst

Liana Brown, 16, of Baldwin, was arrested Friday, June 12, 2015, and charged with assault after she threw bleach into the face of a 53-year-old female counselor at MercyFirst, a social service agency in Syosset, police said. Photo Credit: NCPD

A 16-year-old girl from Baldwin has been charged with assault after Nassau police said she threw bleach at a counselor's face at a social service agency on Friday afternoon.

Liana Brown, a resident at MercyFirst in Syosset, was reprimanded by a 53-year-old female counselor for taking another student's food on Friday about 4:45 p.m., police said. Brown went to the cafeteria kitchen and returned with a cup of bleach, which she threw into the woman's face, police said.

The woman was taken to a hospital and treated for chemical burns to her face and eyes and released, police said.